Here it is, quite possibly the best free software to resize your digital pictures, for example, to web-appropriate size. Let’s face it: Maybe 80% of the public are getting this wrong. Cameras keep offering more and more megapixels because the public has come to equate higher megapixel counts with higher quality (not always the case, by the way). So we now regularly snap pictures 4 megabytes and larger, even when we intend to use them on a website for which, truth be told, they would load much more quickly if they were 80k or less in size. So here’s the solution: Image Resizer:
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/
Mac users will want to try DroPic:
Get started today, resizing your photos to produce snappier online experiences (100kb per image max).
I recommend Irfanview, unequivocally.
http://www.irfanview.net/
It’s free, fast, flexible, powerful.
It shrinks file sizes efficiently without changing resolution or appearance.
It shrinks resolution, crops, etc. and adds captions
It has thumbnails and a batch mode. Tons of bells and whistles.
MS Windows comes with a great image resizer built in. Right click on the image and select open with “Microsoft Office Picture Manager.” Then select ‘picture’ from the menu bar. The bottom two options are ‘resize’ and ‘compress’. Clicking either of these will open up a panel on the right which will give you many options for adjusting the properties of the photo… and the great part, nothing to install. You already have it on your computer if you are a windows user.
I second the motion for Irfanview. I’ve used it for years. Once you get used to it, you can do about anything with it.
Irfanview happens to be the one we use for Brigada.